A Good Day Fishing by Larry Leary

Posted on July 10, 2019 by VHFC

Tough day today (July 9) trying to catch fluke. No grandkids today just several seniors trying to put something in the box. This has been a strange season – nothing on the drift except skates on bait. I had to bump the boat to get fluke to bite. Gulp was the preferred bait. We had half a dozen shorts and 3 keepers 1@ 18”, 1@22” and 1@ 24 1/2″. I weighed in the 24-1/2” @ FHQ and it went 4.34 lbs. We also had 2 nice sea bass and several big sea robins
All in all a good day!

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Of the fifty United States, thirty-eight have a striped-bass record. New Jersey has the largest striped-bass record—a 78-pound 8·ounce whopper that was caught in 1982. The state with the smallest striped-bass record is Iowa. That landlocked striper weighed only 9 pounds 4 ounces and was caught in 1983.

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